At 08:24 PM 8/30/02 -0400, you wrote:
There is a lot of interesting data in this spreadsheet. Our overall error
rate is roughly 3.5%. If you have an error-free run, the error rate is
in the 1.4% to 2% area. If you have an SUM(INPUTS) != SUM(OUTPUTS) error
or ROUNDOFF 0.40 error that is
This would presumably give rise to a serious problem in which people could
simply claim to have done work which failed, and turn up at the server and ask
for credit to their user scores.
There wouldn't be a reliable way (based on current mechanisms) to cross-check
the validity of their claim
A user has broken down the GIMPS error rate for exponents
between 2 million and 7 million. See ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/err_rate.xls.
I'd ignore the data from 6 million to 7 million as there are many
triple-checks to be done. The data from 5 million to 6 million will not
change much at all.
